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1 posted on 02/08/2025 6:31:21 AM PST by kevcol
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2 posted on 02/08/2025 6:33:21 AM PST by cuz1961
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Updated 2025 version…


3 posted on 02/08/2025 6:36:04 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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DOGE and Elon Musk have ZERO executive authority.

They can only gather information and advise President Trump and other Executive Officers.

4 posted on 02/08/2025 6:36:47 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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Welcome to the real world. Twice I’ve been called into the office and not even given the opportunity to prove my worth before being let go due to a corporate reorganization.

Once after being employed for eighteen years. I did get a nice “go Away” check but my career ended that day.

My sympathy for these useless bureaucrats is solidly pegged at zero. Learn to code


5 posted on 02/08/2025 6:38:32 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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The chemical bank? It burned! Caption via: @drgrayfang . #seinfeld #banks  #bank #finance #memes #news #kramer
7 posted on 02/08/2025 6:40:19 AM PST by ealgeone
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Canned answer that I give permission for the employees to use:

Q. “What would you say you do here”

A. I’m an essential worker keeping the American economy on track for growth by online shopping at work. I drink coffee and read online newspapers that cost $10,000 per subscription in furtherance of the 1srt amendment. Got a bonus last year for having to read that drivel.


8 posted on 02/08/2025 6:40:42 AM PST by PAR35
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15 minutes

What's interesting to me, having participated in committee analysis to determine appropriate points for downsizing, is that the inquiry is a superficial 15 minute "glance". They are not digging deep. They are scraping the surface to see those who fails to identify their purpose out of the gate. For the folks who actually work for a living, such an interview is easy to pass. They are truly just looking for the worthless bottom feeders ... and finding them by the 1000s. That's interesting ... and telling ... and infuriating.


11 posted on 02/08/2025 6:44:08 AM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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The DC blob deserves the Bobs, big time.


12 posted on 02/08/2025 6:44:47 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Shouldn’t take more than 2 minutes to describe and justify what you do. I look forward to it if I haven’t retired by the time they get around to my organization. And that GSA or Labor “guy” in the video is mostly lying.


14 posted on 02/08/2025 6:45:00 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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I’m a people person!!

The scary part is that the answer the main character gives is more truthful than any other answer :)


16 posted on 02/08/2025 6:47:52 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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link on X to vid of guy whining (to the gasps of fellow parasites in attendance)
18 posted on 02/08/2025 6:49:37 AM PST by kevcol
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If you can’t explain what you do so it makes sense to a teenager, maybe you should rethink what you do?


20 posted on 02/08/2025 6:50:59 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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I worked in an office for several years, all of us got fired by some dude on a speaker phone! Severance package? Hahahaha, 15 minutes to collect your stuff now go away!!! Zero F’s to give.


29 posted on 02/08/2025 7:15:18 AM PST by The Louiswu (You get what you vote for, good and hard.)
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Well, you see, that’s the rub…most federal employees actually have no job duties that aren’t just B.S. made up by their managers…and making up that B.S. is one of the few job duties of that manager.


30 posted on 02/08/2025 7:18:20 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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Even a 19 year-old can handle these types of assessments:
1. So I see you’ve been working here for the last ___ years, is that right?
2. What would you say you do here?
3. What were your ten [adjust for length of tenure and type of work] most important contributions to the mission of this organization?

In my experience, government employees actually worked fairly hard and took their jobs seriously. The problem was that the “work” was mostly unnecessary or counterproductive. If the recent stories of what USAID was up to truely reflect its activities, terminate the hardest-working, most “effective” employees first. The mere layabouts do much less damage.


32 posted on 02/08/2025 7:20:35 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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If it takes longer than 15 minutes for you to explain what your job is…then you don’t really do anything real.


34 posted on 02/08/2025 7:23:51 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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Welcome to the jungle.


36 posted on 02/08/2025 7:41:39 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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My God, what a pathetic, sheltered, crybaby whiner. These people have NO idea how they come across to the NORMAL Americans who work for a living and face layoffs every day.

I’ve worked for rapidly growing companies, companies that peak and are static, and shrinking companies.

In the first instance, you are under intense pressure to keep the growth going, look for new markets, find new customers to serve.

In the second instance, you are trying to find the old fire that made the company great and figure out why growth has stalled and what you can do about it.

In the third case, you hope you won’t be the one to get the axe and you get motivated to develop a Plan B if the axe does fall.

You learn how to grow your skills to make yourself more valuable, how to read the tea leaves, and how to constantly prepare yourself for anything.

The federal whiner in this video epitomizes a person who thought he had a paycheck for life no matter how little work he did or how worthless he really was.


39 posted on 02/08/2025 7:47:44 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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40 posted on 02/08/2025 7:54:25 AM PST by Lizavetta
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There are probably many thousands of federal employees who can only speak in word salad like Kamala Harris.

A five minute interview will expose them.


45 posted on 02/08/2025 8:13:44 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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